memnus | I can't sleep, so I check my grades

It's not even seven in the morning, my butt hurts from sleeping on the rock-hard floor, so what else am I going to to but check my grades? In no particular order because I closed the page already, unless I have to open it again to check. Which, now that I think about it, I have to.

BIOL052 Introduction to Biology B+
I honestly could have done better than this. I didn't pay much attention in class, saved mostly by the stuff that I already knew. The stuff that was frosh chem over again, I did crappily on.

CSCI060 Principles of Computer Science A
Yeah, that's what I thought. Really, there was never much of a question in my mind.

ENGR059 Intro to Engineering Systems A
Whoa, whoa, whoa, what? I don't understand Stems. Everything I did, every homework assignment, lab, and test, I squeaked through by thinking, "I don't know how to do this, but this seems about like how it went in class." Apparently, even though I had no clue what I was doing, I did the right stuff. Weird.

MS 179 Language of Film B
Well, yeah. I didn't learn much in this class, and was too busy with other stuff to apply myself to it. That and the hours-long exams, with huge blocks of time just writing stuff, were a killer. I've never been good at that.

PHYS051 Electromagnetic Theory & Optics A
I complained a lot about it, but I think I deserve this grade in the end. I actually managed to internalize and learn most of the material, and consistently did well on the homeworks and well above average on the exams. I assume I kept this up for the final.

PHYS053 Electricity & Optics Laboratory A-
My work ethic for this class went from prety bad to start with, to absolutely horrible. My tech report consisted of absolutely no new work, a rehashing of an old lab, with no new data analysis. But, since Eckert is lazy, I still get an A-. Whoa. This is weird.

SOSC179 Introductory Social Science A-
Ah, Restivo's class. For all my sleeping and internal snickering in class, I did manage to pass all the homeworks, and those were the majority of the grade. That, and our group project was apparently above average, which brought it up to this. That class was surprisingly fun, but I give Cal and Benj credit for that. I'd hate to take that class alone.

So, there's my grades, for a 3.666 GPA. I honestly can't complain.

Other than that, I suppose I'm in Phoenix now. I've been doing really horrible on the "sleep" front, so I'm perpetually cold and tired; fortunately there is supposedly a neuroscience session today which ought to be interesting. I hope it is in the afternoon, because I'm waiting for Jeff or Ariel to vacate a bed so I can get real sleep for the duration of the morning.

Weird and unusual dreams last night. Driving, a surprise visit home. A parking lot and a bathroom on top of a hill above a baseball field, frosh Richard playing outfield while my dad drove the lawn mower behind him. Looking for times to catch Audrey, not finding them. Nothing, as usual, coherent.

I gues that's it.

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